IMS Bulletin
The 2015 Schramm Lecture at the 38th Conference on Stochastic Processes and their Applications meeting in Oxford, UK, in July, was presented by Michel Ledoux, University of Toulouse. Michel’s lecture was on “Stein’s method, logarithmic Sobolev and transport inequalities.”
This year’s Stochastic Processes and their Applications conference welcomed over 400…
Workshop series kick-starts operations of new UK Data Science Institute
The new UK national data science institute has opened its doors for business. The Alan Turing Institute was established in response to a letter by Sir Mark Walport to the UK prime minister outlining the need for a national institute.…
Alexei Borodin awarded 2015 Loève Prize
The 2015 Line and Michel Loève International Prize in Probability has been awarded to Alexei Borodin of MIT. The prize, which carries a monetary award of $30,000, will be presented at a ceremony in Berkeley to be held in November 2015.
Alexei Borodin received…
Nomination deadline: October 15, 2015
The Association for Women in Mathematics (AWM) established the Noether Lecture to honor women who have made fundamental and sustained contributions to the mathematical sciences. These one-hour expository lectures are presented at the Joint Mathematics Meetings each January. Emmy Noether was one of the great…
Two surveys carried out in America highlight that being a statistician is a great career move.
A survey carried out by CareerCast.com reveals “The Best Jobs for Women in 2015.” Among those top 11 jobs is Statistician.
CareerCast reports that the annual median wage for statisticians (in the US) is…